Posted on 07/13/2006 7:13:51 PM PDT by SaveSanBernardino
The City Council approved a law Thursday night designed to make this small city in northeastern Pennsylvania among the most hostile places in the U.S. for illegal immigrants to live or work. The 4-to-1 vote came after nearly two hours of passionate debate. Opponents argued it was divisive and possibly illegal, but supporters argued illegal immigrants' growing numbers have damaged the quality of life here.
"We must draw the line, and we are doing it tonight," Mayor Lou Barletta told a packed council chambers.
Barletta proposed the Illegal Immigration Relief Act last month as a response to what he said were Hazleton's problems with violent crime, crowded schools, hospital costs and the demand for services.
The ordinance would deny licenses to businesses that employ illegal immigrants, fine landlords $1,000 for each illegal immigrant discovered renting their properties, and require city documents to be in English only.
Imagine...making illegals...illegal.
The mind boggles...
This story doesn't name the town. It's Hazelton not Wilkes-Barre. I saw this guy on C-Span giving kennedy and specter the business.
PING - Hope in PA
Spoken like a true patriot, of Mexico, that is!
The mind boggles...
LOL
No personal attacks.
Spoken like a true patriot of Mexico? No, an American patriot, one who believes in freedom and limited government.
No local government has the right to dictate to landlords or businessmen to whom or whom they may not do business. Local authorities bent on immigration enforcement do have the right to notify the appropriate federal authorities.
Imagine the ridiculousness, in America, of telling people they must check the passports of individuals before renting them a place to live. Will we apply that as well to motels? Will we require 7-11 owners to check passports before selling milk? It's baloney.
It will take a federal judge about 8 seconds to overturn that portion of this ordinance.
And one more thing--the men who enacted this ordinance apparently weren't bold enough to try to apply it against local public schools! In other words, it's ok (because of Supreme Court rulings) for the local school district to teach the kids of these immigrants (they'll get state and federal money for each "illegal" they take), but you and I can't rent out our upper flat to their parents?
This is carny show snake oil at its best.
If illegals are made legal than anything illegal a legal citizen has done should be made legal.
MAJA99 posted:.... no one's held to laws but legal American citizen. This is what happens when we pick and choose what illegal activity we accept......
Another indication of the fallout from liberal enforcers' situation ethics and moral relativity----wherein each individual is exhorted to decide what's right and what's wrong for them.
We are also burdened with the curse of hyphenation----hyphenated groups dividing the Nation into balkanized groups that demand rights and privileges real Americans don't have.
The sicko hyphenates' have a constant need for adulation, affirmation and confirmation.
The US government, and all its trappings, have been turned into psychotherapy agencies designed to mobolize government power---and our tax assets---to subsidize and shore-up the self-esteem of hyphenated groups.
Anyone with a chip on their shoulder, who can claim a spurious victimhood, sucks up endless tax-paid financial aid.
Only problen is the hyphenates never seem to rid themsleves of their afflictions no matter how much money we throw at them.
EMAIL LOU BARLETTA
Mayor, City of Hazleton
WEB SITE http://www.hazletoncity.org/home_frameset.htm
EMAIL cherie@hazletoncity.org
The law should include hanging!
They damn sure have the right. Sell a beer to a 14 year old, get caught and see what happens.
Of course you would probably do that too. Anything for a buck.
I figured we all understood we were talking about adults.
But I guess you're just a child.
Brilliant, simply brilliant slumlord.
How about a bartender selling alcohol to an abviously drunk person?
How about selling secret technology to the Chinese?
How about a gun store selling a gun to someone who failed a background check?
How about not serving someone in a restaurant because of their race?
why not Eaker. It's a "free market".
Anything goes.
This law is directed at slumlords who advertise rooms in Spanish at grocery store bulletin boards, that we've all seen.
Your analogies are worthless. A bartender can tell if a person is drunk and knows that selling him more booze may kill him or others. The Chinese thing and the gun thing are foolish as well because those are issues of federal law, not local ordinance.
You know as well as I that this part of the ordinance will not last a second in federal court. And thank goodness for that!
Well you have proven that you know nothing.
I guess that is something.
Good job.
You convinced me in just a few posts instead of wasting my time with intelligent rebuttal.
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